Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable and entertaining, but naive, guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day, his family urges him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream, his perception of reality begins to change.

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away). Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato),...

The earth trembles and the world is no longer the same. Everything changes. Landscapes, people and life change. New life is born from the ruins of L'Aquila. This is what happens to Luca and Lucilla. Both victims of the tragic earthquake of April 6, 2009, the two university students choose not to leave the city and not even their dreams. In Italian with English subtitles.

Elia (Toni Servillo, "The Great Beauty") is a Jewish psychoanalyst from a purely Freudian school of thought. Due to his austere and detached manner, he is reputed for immediately generating awe in his patients. Elia lives alone in a flat on the same floor as his ex-wife Giovanna, with whom he is still secretly in love. After a minor illness, his doctor prescribes an iron-rich diet and physical activity to lose a few extra kilos. That is how he chances...

Piero Mansani is a young boy in the district of Livorno nicknamed Ovosodo, or "hardboiled eggs." After the death of his mother, he and his brother are raised by his father, who is in and out of prison, and his father's girlfriend. This coming-of-age comedy follows 15 years in Piero's life – the friendships, loves, heartbreaks, and triumphs – as he comes to understand the ways of the world.

When the hardworking women at a garment factory are laid off, they band together with a group of local nuns at risk of losing their convent to build a successful lingerie business. But when the former owner of the garment factory and the convent's Mother Superior find out about their plans, the whole operation and their fortunes risk total collapse.

In The Salt of Life, Gianni Di Gregorio plays a middle-aged retiree who has become invisible to all distaff Romans, regardless of age or relation. He contends with an aristocratic, spendthrift mother; a wife who is more patronizing friend than romantic partner; a wild young neighbor who sees him merely as her dog walker. Gianni tries his polite, utterly gracious best to generate some kind of love life—with both hilarious and poignant results.

Food services introduces a novel idea to the ward: a new menu!

A post-surgery conversation with a knowledgeable doctor reassures Luigi - but all is not what it seems.

Luigi prepares to spend his first night in the hospital when an unexpected visitor arrives.